Life for Afghan women under the Taliban flag
The Taliban have issued nearly forty decrees and orders related to controlling the behaviour and movement of women in the...
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Reports
Taliban violence extends to hospitals; from demanding priority and imposing restrictions to beating doctors
Dr. Dawood* was treating a patient in the Abu Ali Sinai Balkhi seminary hospital in the Mazar-e-Sharif city about a...
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Aid or insult? Bamyan food packages deliver rotten flour to families
Marzia left her house on a cold, rainy day at the end of fall to pick up an aid package...
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Volunteer teachers defy odds to set up Bamyan education center
A mother with a baby in her arms stands facing the whiteboard. She is solving a math problem at an...
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Taliban checks under schoolgirls skirts “for jeans and fitted pants”
It was 9AM on a Thursday morning when six members of the Taliban morality police visited sixteen-year-old Spozhmai's class. The...
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Taliban forces relentlessly abuse women on the pretext of improper hijabs
Forced to remain mostly at home since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August last year, Somaiya Shams* is devastated...
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Book donations grow for Kaaj memorial library
A campaign to establish a library in Kabul commemorated to the victims of the Kaaj education center bombing is gaining...
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The girls missing from the Kankor results – and missing out on education
After many years of girls being in the top of Afghanistan’s university entrance results, this year there were no girls...
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Hardened hands and calloused hearts: the extreme working lives of women in Bamyan
The hot sun beats down, shining directly overhead. The forehead of 22-year-old Basma gleams with sweat. She has been working...
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Taliban extremists visit schools to encourage jihad and martyrdom
Ahmadwali, 17, has heard many times from the Taliban men who visit his school frequently about “the right to kill...
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